Its about a different perspective

Its about a different perspective
It’s amazing when those who think they like free speech turn away when questioned. Extremist views on the nature of things grant nothing but extremism itself. You want to live in grey, then stop pushing and advertising an ideology, for as soon as a person speaks their mind, they are making their opinion...MD / The photo represents the naive thinking that one can think in an unconscious grey state of mind: you cannot think in an unconscious state (thinking is an effort). I am not sure where some get their expert titles from! The grey area represents those who think grey areas is where safety should be. Status Quo is the alternative solution that may emerge over time in following of those who think they know all. An head up arse is just where some people thrive...sorry

Masquerade

When are we going to really start talking about real issues instead of talking about topics that are not the leading issues in safety? Topics like safety managers and officers who are incompetent yet continue to get jobs as a leader (LinkedIn is full of lies and self promotion), yet these people have failed as a leader and have been a partial cause to workplace deaths and injuries. Topics like psychology, where there seems to be people who think this is the answer and will stop incidents occurring (keep in mind people don't go to work to hurt themselves), in my view this is just another expensive band aid, especially when the people promoting this stuff tell us to unlearn safety topics, to embrace risk, to not use hindsight as a way to learn, to be loose and ignore rules and not find blame.


In so many workplace safety events, there are key issues that cause incidents, but they mostly get lost within all sorts of trivial safety programs that come out by those looking to cash in and make a quick buck.


The simple fact is that organisations that are not making enough money cut corners, organisations that cause mental health issues and stress are pushing people to hard and asking them to do things outside best practice. Organisation that are not making money do not maintain equipment, or purchase better equipment, they also go lax on training workers. This (greed) is the key to most workplace tragedies, yet we continue to masquerade behind the false notion that it’s everything but these things.


As I have been saying for years, get rid of organisation paid safety people, introduce a safety TAX so that "all" organisations have access to non bias professionals/inspectors that make organisations more accountable for fixing non compliances. If safety is to become a priority, then this is the only way I see it working. There are to many organisation not doing real safety and things being ignored. It is only after event that we see what should have been done by those who knew what should have been done in the first place.


I would also like to see a day where workers have a day where they can have a minute silence for all those workers that have been killed. We need to start remembering that work kills many people, at in most case its corporate greed that does it.